🌱 SOIL: Where the Light Enters
A community art & wellness exhibition presented by What’s Your Elephant™
“From what has been buried, we grow. From what we face, we transform.”
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
SOIL: Where the Light Enters is a multidisciplinary art and wellness exhibition and community activation presented by What’s Your Elephant™, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that uses the arts to address the unspoken.
The exhibition brings together works by 26 artists whose practices explore transformation, resilience, memory, and healing through deeply personal and lived experiences. Across visual art, performance, and interdisciplinary forms, the works invite reflection on growth, vulnerability, and the ways creativity becomes a site for meaning-making and connection.
Curated and produced by Niki Lopez, award-winning artist, curator, and social practitioner, SOIL unfolds as a living, community-centered exhibition that approaches curation as a form of social practice. Through a curated constellation of works, the exhibition centers dialogue—creating space for reflection on how healing and growth emerge through what we endure.
Inspired by the Rumi quote, “The wound is the place where the light enters,” the exhibition invites audiences into an immersive experience of art, reflection, mindfulness, storytelling, and community connection. Here, art meets advocacy, performance meets reflection, and creativity becomes a vessel for personal and collective healing.
Together, SOIL creates space for contemplation, conversation, and connection—using art as a catalyst for awareness, wellness, and change.
Exhibition Details
Dates: December 19, 2025 – January 2026
Opening Night: December 19, 2025 at 1310 Gallery, Fort Lauderdale
Exhibiting Artists
Christina Marie Reddick · Trish Delish Art · Jane Kreinberg · Olivia Rachel Austin · Elizabeth Vitale · Louiveste La Croix · Isabella M.L · Christine Velez Stone · Zipporah Michel · Linda Telfer · Dr Kimme · Alana DaCosta aka Yaa Ifanike · Sheila Alexander · Emily Peters · Tsahai Smith · Ariel Collins · Damaris Ferrer · Micheal Anthony Clark · Yamel Molerio · Bearwizzard · Juan Sebastian “Zeb” Restrepo · Coralina Rodriguez Meyer · Sophia Lacroix · Erika Cespedes · Niki Lopez.
Location
1310 Gallery • Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Inside the Sailboat Bend Artist Lofts
ACTIVATIONS & COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES
Stay tuned for RSVP links for each experience.
All events take place at 1310 Gallery unless noted otherwise.
✨ Opening Night — Friday, Dec 19, 2025; 6-10 PM – CLICK TO RSVP
A vibrant evening of art, performance, spoken word, and storytelling celebrating transformation and self-expression.
🎨 What’s Your Elephant™ Collage Workshop + Artist Talk — Dec 27, 2025; 3-6 PM – CLICK TO RSVP
A community art-making experience and dialogue exploring healing, growth, and storytelling through collage and conversation.
🎭 Mindful Mask-Making Experience — Jan 8, 2026; 6-9 PM CLICK FOR TICKETS
A creative and reflective session blending cultural symbolism, identity exploration, and mindfulness-based art-making.
🌿 Wellness Day — Jan 11, 2026; 12-4 PM – CLICK FOR TICKETS
Co-produced with Longville Wellness, this restorative day integrates sound therapy, acupuncture, expressive arts, and mindfulness practices for holistic well-being. Donation: $40/$45 (*2 for 1 tickets until December 15)
👨👩👧👦 Mommy & Me: It’s a Family Affair — Jan 18, 2026; 12-3 PM – CLICK FOR TICKETS
A family-centered mindful art-making experience for parents, caregivers, and children to create side-by-side, encouraging bonding, emotional awareness, and creativity. Family Day Resource List, click here.
💞 Closing Event: Friendship, Network & Flow — Jan 23, 2026; 6-9 PM – CLICK TO RSVP
Produced by Niki Lopez Creative, this soft closing gathers artists, vendors, and community members for connection, small-works sales, and conversations around art, wellness, and collective care.
CLICK HERE to download the PDF for SOIL’S Flip Book
What’s Your Elephant™ collaborates with community groups, artists, nonprofits, and corporate organizations.
Join us for a day of healing and connection at Soil: Where The Light Enters – A Community Wellness Day,
WELLNESS DAY – Sunday, January 11, 2026
SUPPORT THE EXHIBITION
Your support helps us sustain free and accessible community art & wellness programming across South Florida.
Donate: https://givebutter.com/wye_soil
Every contribution — large or small — nurtures this work.
